Visualizes phylogenetic relationships and metadata for Pezizomycotina, downloads alignments for six loci and performs placement of unknowns using either BLAST or phylogeny-based approaches in RAxML. T-BAS has three main uses: (i) Users may download alignments and voucher tables for members of the Pezizomycotina directly from the reference tree, facilitating systematics studies of focal clades; (ii) Users may upload sequence files with reads representing unknown taxa and place these on the phylogeny using either BLAST or phylogeny-based approaches, and then use the displayed tree to select reference taxa to include when downloading alignments; (iii) User-customizable metadata can be visualized on the tree.

Center for Integrated Fungal Research, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA

T-BAS funding source(s)

Funding for the development of T-BAS was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Dimensions of Biodiversity (DoB) (DEB-1046167, DEB-1045766 and DEB-1046065).